Linda Grabeck did not have an athletic scholarship,there simply weren't enough scholarships to go around. Until theNCAA relaxed the rules and allowed you to come up with morescholarships, that was the way it had to be.

When you spoke to Linda about your concerns, she wasvery open about her part-time job. She indicated that, of course,college was very expensive. Tuition and fees were high and the costof books and other materials grew more expensive each year.Certainly jobs were available such as working at one of the manyburger joints in the area. But Linda told you that she could makeas much in a single night of nude dancing as she could make in awhole week of flipping burgers, She asked how people knew that shewas a Carver State athlete because she never wore any clothing atthe club to connect her to the university or the trackteam.

You assured her that these things had a way of gettingaround, and that some of the school's baseball players had been inthe club and noticed her. Linda said it seemed unfair that theballplayers had worn their Carver State caps and sweatshirts to theestablishment and she was the one getting called in on the carpet.You said that may be true, but that was a different issue thatsomeone else would have to deal with.

So that was her side of the story. Linda Grabeck was anexotic dancer but she was not trying to use her position as amember of the track team in any way to her advantage. She saw it asa simple case of economics. She needed the money for school andthis was the best way to make it. Besides, as she commented, “A lotof college students do this." She went on to say that her job waspart of her private life and on her own time. She was not an 18year-old freshman. She was a young adult who was capable ofweighing the advantages and disadvantages of working in an all-nudeclub. Furthermore, Linda suggested that there might be a doublestandard at the school if it was acceptable for male athletes tovisit a strip club but not acceptable for female athletes to workthere.

However, there were other serious issues that you couldnot ignore. Not only did you have a responsibility to Linda, youhad a responsibility to the university, other members of the trackteam, and yourself. Carver State had a particular image that it hadearned over the years. This was an institution that cared about itsstudents. Parents liked the idea of sending their sons anddaughters to a school that was reasonably conservative and fairlysafe. That image would be harmed if people knew that the school'sathletes were working as strippers in the local bars, You wonderedhow you would respond to the parents of a young woman you wererecruiting if they asked about a member of the track team whoworked as a stripper

QUESTIONS

• What components of this case are technical and whatcomponents are

ethical?

• At what point in the chain of problems and symptomscan you effectively

intervene?

• What are the consequences of allowing Ms. Grabeck tobe on the track

team while she works as a stripper (long- andshort-term)?

• Who will benefit and who will suffer if Ms. Grabeckcannot be on the

team and continue her chosen employment (long- andshort-term)?

• To whom do you owe an obligation in thissituation?

• What are the expectations for collegecoaches?

• How have you acted in a situation similar to this one?What did you

learn from that experience?